Enquiry commission submits report on the secret killings during the henious Prafulla regime

Guwahati, Aug 12:The enquiry report of three out of the six cases relating to the infamous Secret Killings which rocked the state in 1998 and the ghost of which is still stalking the former Chief Minister of Assam Prafulla Kr Mahanta were submitted to state government on Friday.
Retired Justice J.N Sarma was entrusted with the job of probing the dark episode after Retired Justice Mira Sarma quit the enquiry commission on Nov 2002. The term secret killing became famous after a spate of killings of ULFA relatives including the family of Mithinga Daimary towards the end of Prafulla Kr Mahanta led AGP government in 1998.
Justice Sarma today submitted reports of three cases- Jyotish Sarma of Guwahati, Dr Dharani Dhar Das of Boroma in Nalbari and Rajesh Mishra and Rajeev Koch of Tezpur.
The report of Jyotish Sarma, an employee of Gauhati University who was killed in January 2001 states that fratricidal clash among rival ULFA groups was responsible for the killing.
Regarding the killings of Dr Dharanidhar Das, brother of ULFA’s former publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary and his four family members, Justice Sarma rued that in spite of the killings occurring at around 11 at night with volley of shots fired resembling a diwali night nobody came forward to provide any evidence and an FIR was lodged only next day at 11 am though the police station was situated only 1 km away from the spot.
“ Though I expected support from the government but I prepared the report of the three cases after lots of problem,” informed Sarma.
Regarding the case of Rajesh Mishra and Rajiv Koch of Tezpur reports of kidnapping and land grabbing is submitted. Two surrendered ULFA militants Viveknath and Krishna Hazarika were found involved. It may be mentioned that one of the accused Krishna is already dead whereas Vivek Nath is languishing in jail. Importantly, Justice Sarma while speaking to media revealed that no politician, bureaucrat or police officials were found involved in the three cases as none gave evidences in this regard.